CINEMATOGRAPHIC IMAGES FOR A THEORY OF LAW SOCIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED

Abstract

«Law and Film» studies can complete the understanding and teaching of some concepts of legal theory. This seems particularly interesting in a theory of law sociologically inspired, both for its desire to overcome scientism and for the way in which it tries to correct certain speculative excesses of iusphilosophical roots. With the background of some Manuel Calvo or Ignacio Aymerich’s contributions to the field of theory of Law in our country and in accordance with a broad line that goes from Max Weber to Michel Foucault, we turn to films such as a L’enfant sauvage, (Truffaut, 1970), Double Indemnity (Wilder, 1944) or Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto, (Petri, 1970) to illustrate some epigraphs of the theory of Law of sociological inspiration, respectively: the intrinsically normative nature of man and society, the dissection on moral servobrakes and mechanisms of obedience (and disobedience) of the law by the average citizen or the contamination of subsystems as a breakdown of the internal logic and the consis-tent generation of social expectations according to the view of Niklas Luhmann.